Show #313 – Bruce Scott On The Power Of Bodywork

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And on this week’s show!

We often don’t know just how good we are designed to feel and in today’s show, I interview Bruce Scott, the Body Magician, who works hard to help people feel that. Bodywork is a way through human touch and guidance, to help us nourish our nervous systems and re-write the programming of our physical and mental state as a result – a powerful tool because we are an equal part of the process rather than having something ’done’ to us and in a world where health is so often externalised, bodywork calls on us to come home and explore. How did Bruce come to do this work? It’s a powerful story in itself. At ten years of age, Bruce became sick with viral meningitis and went from being an elite gymnast to living in a dark room unable to go outside, even to school. Extensive treatments with Western medicine were not helping and by thirteen, Bruce had arthritis in every joint in his body.

He started learning tai chi and receiving a Swedish remedial massage once a week. Within six months, he fully recovered and could play sports outdoors, run for miles, and start boxing. Bruce, aka The Body Magician, says the combination of movement, breathing, and massage transformed his life and now he is using it to transform the lives of others. Known as BODYWORK, Bruce’s work is a therapeutic practice combining massage, assisted stretching, and breath work to heal the body. He is on a mission to support the body’s ability to heal and helps clients find energy, vitality, creativity, and clarity through deep relaxation. Bruce works with everyone from athletes to CEOs, mums and dads, entertainers, artists, authors, and more. He helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, burnout, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, hormonal challenges, migraines, PTSD, pregnancy, pre and post-operative care, and more and I’m delighted to bring you this conversation that I had with Bruce on the show as 2022 comes to an end.

Questions I asked Bruce:

Tell us about your background and how you got into what you do. What is your story?
How did chronic illness affect you socially as a kid? Was it lonely?
Why do you think your parents were able to look outside the box to support your healing?
How did martial arts help you and at what point did you start to put together bodywork as a way of working to support others on their journey to health and wholeness?
What’s involved in a session, and what are clients getting themselves into?
What are the benefits of BODYWORK?
How have you seen it transform people? Can you share a couple of case studies to give people an idea of how transformative it can be?
How do you prepare/look after yourself for the work that you do?
Have you ever met someone you haven’t been able to help?

About Bruce Scott

At ten years of age, Bruce Scott became sick with viral meningitis and went from being an elite gymnast to living in a dark room unable to go outside, even to school. Extensive treatments with Western medicine were not helping and by thirteen, Bruce had arthritis in every joint in his body.

He started learning tai chi and receiving a Swedish remedial massage once a week. Within six months, he fully recovered and could play sports outdoors, run for miles and start boxing.

Bruce, aka The Body Magician, says the combination of movement, breathing, and massage transformed his life and now he is using it to transform the lives of others.

Known as BODYWORK, Bruce’s work is a therapeutic practice combining massage, assisted stretching, and breath work to heal the body.

He is on a mission to support the body’s ability to heal and helps clients find energy, vitality, creativity, and clarity through deep relaxation.

Bruce works with everyone from athletes to CEOs, mums and dads, entertainers, artists, authors, and more.

He helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, burnout, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, hormonal challenges, migraines, PTSD, pregnancy, pre and post-operative care, and more.

Through 25 years of studying martial arts, massage, and movement (Yoga, Chi gong, Feldenkrais) to name a few, he has developed the ability to tune in to where your body is at and see the potential of where it could be.

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